| ISBN13: | 9783031663116 |
| ISBN10: | 303166311X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 476 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 27 Illustrations, black & white; 78 Illustrations, color |
| 694 |
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This book offers an original and unprecedented in-depth analysis of the demography and identity American Jewry. It discusses crucially important issues for the understanding of the contemporary status, with an adequate historical background ? which often lacks in much research work. The volume consists of both brand new chapters and partly relies on several scholarly works in the field that were published over the course of more than 40 years have been revised, updated, split and merged so to form newly conceived content.
This text provides a critical and unique approach to the major scholarly trends in American Jewish demography and sociology. It is divided into a number of parts, dealing with population trends, Jewish identification patterns, and yet more specific groups or sub-populations. Each section is preceded by a short introduction. A post-script provides a serious debate about the future of US Jewry and its position and role among World Jewry. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in Jewish Studies.
This book offers an original and unprecedented in-depth analysis of the demography and identity American Jewry. It discusses crucially important issues for the understanding of the contemporary status, with an adequate historical background ? which often lacks in much research work. The volume consists of both brand new chapters and partly relies on several scholarly works in the field that were published over the course of more than 40 years have been revised, updated, split and merged so to form newly conceived content.
This text provides a critical and unique approach to the major scholarly trends in American Jewish demography and sociology. It is divided into a number of parts, dealing with population trends, Jewish identification patterns, and yet more specific groups or sub-populations. Each section is preceded by a short introduction. A post-script provides a serious debate about the future of US Jewry and its position and role among World Jewry. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in Jewish Studies.
Part 1. Reflections on Jewish Identification.- Chapter 1. Studying Jewish Identity.- Chapter 2. The Place of Jewish Education in American Jewish Identity.- Chapter 3. US Jews and Israel: Distancing, Yet One.- Chapter 4. The Structure of Jewish Identification in the United States: 2001 Revisited.- Chapter 5. Jewish Identification Differentials in the United States and in Israel: A Structural Analysis.- Chapter 6. Demographic and Religious Dimensions of Jewish Identification in the US and in Israel: Millennials in Generational Perspective.- Chapter 7. Jewish Identification in the US and in Other Countries.- Part 2. Reflections on Jewish Demography.- Chapter 8. The Changing Conventional Jewish Family.- Chapter 9. Trends, Coherence and Inconsistencies in Intermarriage.- Chapter 10. The 52 Percent Statistics: Thoughts on Jewish Intermarriage in America.- Chapter 11. End of Jewish/Non-Jewish Dichotomy? Evidence from the 2013 Pew Survey.- Chapter 12. American Jewish Fertility.- Chapter 13. Migration and Aliya from North America.- Chapter 14. How Many Jews in the US? Was It the Demography? A Reassessment.- Chapter 15. How to Read the Pew: A US Jewish Population Estimate for 2023.- Part 3. Reflections on Particularism, Exceptionalism, Conformity.- Chapter 16. Jewish Women in Transition.- Chapter 17. American Orthodox Jews: Demographic Trends and Scenarios.- Chapter 18. Sociodemographic Aspects of Jews of Sephardi and Asian-African Origin in the United States.- Chapter 19. Two Observations on Political Choices, 1980-2020.- Chapter 20. Jews of Color: An American Dilemma.- Chapter 21. Jewish Populations, Migrations, and Identities in the Americas: The Shared and the Particular.- Chapter 22. E Pluribus Unum? E Uno Plures?.
